April 13, 2012 Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques 1

Data Mining:
Concepts and Techniques
Slides for Textbook
Chapter 5
Jiawei Han and Micheline Kamber
Intelligent Database Systems Research Lab
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University, Canada
http://www.cs.sfu.ca
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Chapter 5: Concept Description:
Characterization and Comparison
What is concept description?
Data generalization and summarization-based
characterization
Analytical characterization: Analysis of attribute relevance
Mining class comparisons: Discriminating between
different classes
Mining descriptive statistical measures in large databases
Discussion
Summary
What is Concept Description?
Descriptive vs. predictive data mining
Descriptive mining: describes concepts or task-relevant
data sets in concise, summarative, informative,
discriminative forms
Predictive mining: Based on data and analysis,
constructs models for the database, and predicts the
trend and properties of unknown data
Concept description:
Characterization: provides a concise and succinct
summarization of the given collection of data
Comparison: provides descriptions comparing two or
more collections of data
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Concept Description vs. OLAP
Concept description:
can handle complex data types of the
attributes and their aggregations
a more automated process
OLAP:
restricted to a small number of dimension
and measure types
user-controlled process
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Chapter 5: Concept Description:
Characterization and Comparison
What is concept description?
Data generalization and summarization-based
characterization
Analytical characterization: Analysis of attribute relevance
Mining class comparisons: Discriminating between
different classes
Mining descriptive statistical measures in large databases
Discussion
Summary
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Data Generalization and Summarization-
based Characterization
Data generalization
A process which abstracts a large set of task-relevant
data in a database from a low conceptual levels to
higher ones.



Approaches:
Data cube approach(OLAP approach)
Attribute-oriented induction approach

1
2
3
4
5
Conceptual levels
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Characterization: Data Cube Approach
(without using AO-Induction)
Perform computations and store results in data cubes
Strength
An efficient implementation of data generalization
Computation of various kinds of measures
e.g., count( ), sum( ), average( ), max( )
Generalization and specialization can be performed on a data
cube by roll-up and drill-down
Limitations
handle only dimensions of simple nonnumeric data and
measures of simple aggregated numeric values.
Lack of intelligent analysis, cant tell which dimensions should
be used and what levels should the generalization reach
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Attribute-Oriented Induction
Proposed in 1989 (KDD 89 workshop)
Not confined to categorical data nor particular measures.
How it is done?
Collect the task-relevant data( initial relation) using a
relational database query
Perform generalization by attribute removal or
attribute generalization.
Apply aggregation by merging identical, generalized
tuples and accumulating their respective counts.
Interactive presentation with users.


Basic Principles of Attribute-
Oriented Induction
Data focusing: task-relevant data, including dimensions,
and the result is the initial relation.
Attribute-removal: remove attribute A if there is a large set
of distinct values for A but (1) there is no generalization
operator on A, or (2) As higher level concepts are
expressed in terms of other attributes.
Attribute-generalization: If there is a large set of distinct
values for A, and there exists a set of generalization
operators on A, then select an operator and generalize A.
Attribute-threshold control: typical 2-8, specified/default.
Generalized relation threshold control: control the final
relation/rule size. see example
Basic Algorithm for Attribute-Oriented
Induction
InitialRel: Query processing of task-relevant data, deriving
the initial relation.
PreGen: Based on the analysis of the number of distinct
values in each attribute, determine generalization plan for
each attribute: removal? or how high to generalize?
PrimeGen: Based on the PreGen plan, perform
generalization to the right level to derive a prime
generalized relation, accumulating the counts.
Presentation: User interaction: (1) adjust levels by drilling,
(2) pivoting, (3) mapping into rules, cross tabs,
visualization presentations.
See Implementation See example See complexity
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Example
DMQL: Describe general characteristics of graduate
students in the Big-University database
use Big_University_DB
mine characteristics as Science_Students
in relevance to name, gender, major, birth_place,
birth_date, residence, phone#, gpa
from student
where status in graduate
Corresponding SQL statement:
Select name, gender, major, birth_place, birth_date,
residence, phone#, gpa
from student
where status in {Msc, MBA, PhD }

Class Characterization: An Example
Name Gender Major Birth-Place Birth_date Residence Phone # GPA
Jim
Woodman
M CS Vancouver,BC,
Canada
8-12-76 3511 Main St.,
Richmond
687-4598 3.67
Scott
Lachance
M CS Montreal, Que,
Canada
28-7-75 345 1st Ave.,
Richmond
253-9106 3.70
Laura Lee

Physics

Seattle, WA, USA

25-8-70

125 Austin Ave.,

Burnaby

420-5232

3.83

Removed Retained Sci,Eng,

Bus
Country Age range City Removed Excl,
VG,..
Gender Major Birth_region Age_range Residence GPA Count
M Science Canada 20-25 Richmond Very-good 16
F Science Foreign 25-30 Burnaby Excellent 22

Birth_Region
Gender
Canada Foreign Total
M 16 14 30
F 10 22 32
Total 26 36 62
See Principles See Algorithm
Prime
Generalized
Relation
Initial
Relation
See Implementation See Analytical Characterization
Presentation of Generalized Results
Generalized relation:
Relations where some or all attributes are generalized, with counts
or other aggregation values accumulated.
Cross tabulation:
Mapping results into cross tabulation form (similar to contingency
tables).
Visualization techniques:
Pie charts, bar charts, curves, cubes, and other visual forms.
Quantitative characteristic rules:
Mapping generalized result into characteristic rules with quantitative
information associated with it, e.g.,
. %] 47 : [ " " ) ( _ %] 53 : [ " " ) ( _
) ( ) (
t foreign x region birth t Canada x region birth
x male x grad
= v =
.
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PresentationGeneralized Relation










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PresentationCrosstab










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Implementation by Cube Technology
Construct a data cube on-the-fly for the given data
mining query
Facilitate efficient drill-down analysis
May increase the response time
A balanced solution: precomputation of subprime
relation
Use a predefined & precomputed data cube
Construct a data cube beforehand
Facilitate not only the attribute-oriented induction,
but also attribute relevance analysis, dicing, slicing,
roll-up and drill-down
Cost of cube computation and the nontrivial storage
overhead
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Chapter 5: Concept Description:
Characterization and Comparison
What is concept description?
Data generalization and summarization-based
characterization
Analytical characterization: Analysis of attribute relevance
Mining class comparisons: Discriminating between
different classes
Mining descriptive statistical measures in large databases
Discussion
Summary
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Characterization vs. OLAP
Similarity:
Presentation of data summarization at multiple levels of
abstraction.
Interactive drilling, pivoting, slicing and dicing.
Differences:
Automated desired level allocation.
Dimension relevance analysis and ranking when there
are many relevant dimensions.
Sophisticated typing on dimensions and measures.
Analytical characterization: data dispersion analysis.
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Attribute Relevance Analysis
Why?
Which dimensions should be included?
How high level of generalization?
Automatic vs. interactive
Reduce # attributes; easy to understand patterns
What?
statistical method for preprocessing data
filter out irrelevant or weakly relevant attributes
retain or rank the relevant attributes
relevance related to dimensions and levels
analytical characterization, analytical comparison
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Attribute relevance analysis (contd)
How?
Data Collection
Analytical Generalization
Use information gain analysis (e.g., entropy or other
measures) to identify highly relevant dimensions and levels.
Relevance Analysis
Sort and select the most relevant dimensions and levels.
Attribute-oriented Induction for class description
On selected dimension/level
OLAP operations (e.g. drilling, slicing) on relevance
rules
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Relevance Measures
Quantitative relevance measure determines the
classifying power of an attribute within a set of
data.
Methods
information gain (ID3)
gain ratio (C4.5)
gini index
_
2
contingency table statistics
uncertainty coefficient
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Information-Theoretic Approach
Decision tree
each internal node tests an attribute
each branch corresponds to attribute value
each leaf node assigns a classification
ID3 algorithm
build decision tree based on training objects with
known class labels to classify testing objects
rank attributes with information gain measure
minimal height
the least number of tests to classify an object

See example
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Top-Down Induction of Decision Tree
Attributes = {Outlook, Temperature, Humidity, Wind}
Outlook
Humidity
Wind
sunny rain
overcast
yes
no yes
high
normal
no
strong
weak
yes
PlayTennis = {yes, no}
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Entropy and Information Gain
S contains s
i
tuples of class C
i
for i = {1, , m}
Information measures info required to classify
any arbitrary tuple

Entropy of attribute A with values {a
1
,a
2
,,a
v
}


Information gained by branching on attribute A

s
s
log
s
s
) ,...,s ,s s I(
i
m
i
i
m 2 1 2
1

=
=
) s ,..., s ( I
s
s ... s
E(A) mj j
v
j
mj j
1
1
1

=
+ +
=
E(A) ) s ,..., s , I(s Gain(A) m = 2 1
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Example: Analytical Characterization
Task
Mine general characteristics describing graduate
students using analytical characterization

Given
attributes name, gender, major, birth_place,
birth_date, phone#, and gpa
Gen(a
i
) = concept hierarchies on a
i

U
i
= attribute analytical thresholds for a
i

T
i
= attribute generalization thresholds for a
i

R = attribute relevance threshold
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Example: Analytical
Characterization (contd)
1. Data collection
target class: graduate student
contrasting class: undergraduate student
2. Analytical generalization using U
i

attribute removal
remove name and phone#
attribute generalization
generalize major, birth_place, birth_date and gpa
accumulate counts
candidate relation: gender, major, birth_country,
age_range and gpa

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Example: Analytical characterization (2)
gender major birth_country age_range gpa count
M Science Canada 20-25 Very_good 16
F Science Foreign 25-30 Excellent 22
M Engineering Foreign 25-30 Excellent 18
F Science Foreign 25-30 Excellent 25
M Science Canada 20-25 Excellent 21
F Engineering Canada 20-25 Excellent 18
Candidate relation for Target class: Graduate students (E=120)
gender major birth_country age_range gpa count
M Science Foreign <20 Very_good 18
F Business Canada <20 Fair 20
M Business Canada <20 Fair 22
F Science Canada 20-25 Fair 24
M Engineering Foreign 20-25 Very_good 22
F Engineering Canada <20 Excellent 24
Candidate relation for Contrasting class: Undergraduate students (E=130)
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Example: Analytical characterization (3)
3. Relevance analysis
Calculate expected info required to classify an
arbitrary tuple


Calculate entropy of each attribute: e.g. major


9988 0
250
130
250
130
250
120
250
120
130 120 2 2 2 1 . log log ) , I( ) s , I(s = = =
For major=Science: S
11
=84 S
21
=42 I(s
11
,s
21
)=0.9183
For major=Engineering: S
12
=36 S
22
=46 I(s
12
,s
22
)=0.9892
For major=Business: S
13
=0 S
23
=42 I(s
13
,s
23
)=0
Number of grad
students in Science
Number of undergrad
students in Science
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Example: Analytical Characterization (4)
Calculate expected info required to classify a given
sample if S is partitioned according to the attribute


Calculate information gain for each attribute

Information gain for all attributes

7873 0
250
42
250
82
250
126
23 13 22 12 21 11 . ) s , s ( I ) s , s ( I ) s , s ( I E(major) = + + =
2115 0 2 1 . E(major) ) s , I(s ) Gain(major = =
Gain(gender) = 0.0003
Gain(birth_country) = 0.0407
Gain(major) = 0.2115
Gain(gpa) = 0.4490
Gain(age_range) = 0.5971
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Example: Analytical characterization (5)
4. Initial working relation (W
0
) derivation
R = 0.1
remove irrelevant/weakly relevant attributes from candidate
relation => drop gender, birth_country
remove contrasting class candidate relation






5. Perform attribute-oriented induction on W
0
using T
i

major age_range gpa count
Science 20-25 Very_good 16
Science 25-30 Excellent 47
Science 20-25 Excellent 21
Engineering 20-25 Excellent 18
Engineering 25-30 Excellent 18
Initial target class working relation W
0
: Graduate students
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Chapter 5: Concept Description:
Characterization and Comparison
What is concept description?
Data generalization and summarization-based
characterization
Analytical characterization: Analysis of attribute relevance
Mining class comparisons: Discriminating between
different classes
Mining descriptive statistical measures in large databases
Discussion
Summary
Mining Class Comparisons
Comparison: Comparing two or more classes.
Method:
Partition the set of relevant data into the target class
and the contrasting class(es)
Generalize both classes to the same high level concepts
Compare tuples with the same high level descriptions
Present for every tuple its description and two
measures:
support - distribution within single class
comparison - distribution between classes
Highlight the tuples with strong discriminant features
Relevance Analysis:
Find attributes (features) which best distinguish
different classes.
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Example: Analytical comparison
Task
Compare graduate and undergraduate students
using discriminant rule.
DMQL query


use Big_University_DB
mine comparison as grad_vs_undergrad_students
in relevance to name, gender, major, birth_place, birth_date, residence, phone#, gpa
for graduate_students
where status in graduate
versus undergraduate_students
where status in undergraduate
analyze count%
from student
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Example: Analytical comparison (2)
Given
attributes name, gender, major, birth_place,
birth_date, residence, phone# and gpa
Gen(a
i
) = concept hierarchies on attributes a
i

U
i
= attribute analytical thresholds for
attributes a
i

T
i
= attribute generalization thresholds for
attributes a
i

R = attribute relevance threshold



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Example: Analytical comparison (3)
1. Data collection
target and contrasting classes

2. Attribute relevance analysis
remove attributes name, gender, major, phone#

3. Synchronous generalization
controlled by user-specified dimension thresholds
prime target and contrasting class(es)
relations/cuboids

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Example: Analytical comparison (4)
Birth_country Age_range Gpa Count%
Canada 20-25 Good 5.53%
Canada 25-30 Good 2.32%
Canada Over_30 Very_good 5.86%

Other Over_30 Excellent 4.68%
Prime generalized relation for the target class: Graduate students
Birth_country Age_range Gpa Count%
Canada 15-20 Fair 5.53%
Canada 15-20 Good 4.53%

Canada 25-30 Good 5.02%

Other Over_30 Excellent 0.68%
Prime generalized relation for the contrasting class: Undergraduate students
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Example: Analytical comparison (5)
4. Drill down, roll up and other OLAP operations
on target and contrasting classes to adjust
levels of abstractions of resulting description

5. Presentation
as generalized relations, crosstabs, bar
charts, pie charts, or rules
contrasting measures to reflect comparison
between target and contrasting classes
e.g. count%



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Quantitative Discriminant Rules
Cj = target class
q
a
= a generalized tuple covers some tuples of class
but can also cover some tuples of contrasting class
d-weight
range: [0, 1]


quantitative discriminant rule form

=
e
e
=
m
i
i a
j a
) C count(q
) C count(q
weight d
1
d_weight] : [d X) condition( ss(X) target_cla X, :
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Example: Quantitative Discriminant
Rule
Quantitative discriminant rule



where 90/(90+120) = 30%
Status Birth_country Age_range Gpa Count
Graduate Canada 25-30 Good 90
Undergraduate Canada 25-30 Good 210
Count distribution between graduate and undergraduate students for a generalized tuple
%] 30 : [ " " ) ( " 30 25 " ) ( _ " " ) ( _
) ( _ ,
d good X gpa X range age Canada X country birth
X student graduate X
= . = . =
:
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Class Description
Quantitative characteristic rule

necessary
Quantitative discriminant rule

sufficient
Quantitative description rule


necessary and sufficient



] w : d , w : [t ... ] w : d , w : [t n n 1 1 1
'
v v
'

(X) condition (X) condition
ss(X) target_cla X,
n
d_weight] : [d X) condition( ss(X) target_cla X, :
t_weight] : [t X) condition( ss(X) target_cla X,
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Example: Quantitative Description
Rule





Quantitative description rule for target class Europe




Location/item TV Computer Both_items
Count t-wt d-wt Count t-wt d-wt Count t-wt d-wt
Europe 80 25% 40% 240 75% 30% 320 100% 32%
N_Am 120 17.65% 60% 560 82.35% 70% 680 100% 68%
Both_
regions
200 20% 100% 800 80% 100% 1000 100% 100%


Crosstab showing associated t-weight, d-weight values and total number (in thousands) of TVs and
computers sold at AllElectronics in 1998
30%] : d 75%, : [t 40%] : d 25%, : [t ) computer" " (item(X) ) TV" " (item(X)
Europe(X) X,
= v =

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Chapter 5: Concept Description:
Characterization and Comparison
What is concept description?
Data generalization and summarization-based
characterization
Analytical characterization: Analysis of attribute relevance
Mining class comparisons: Discriminating between
different classes
Mining descriptive statistical measures in large databases
Discussion
Summary
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Mining Data Dispersion Characteristics
Motivation
To better understand the data: central tendency, variation
and spread
Data dispersion characteristics
median, max, min, quantiles, outliers, variance, etc.
Numerical dimensions correspond to sorted intervals
Data dispersion: analyzed with multiple granularities of
precision
Boxplot or quantile analysis on sorted intervals
Dispersion analysis on computed measures
Folding measures into numerical dimensions
Boxplot or quantile analysis on the transformed cube
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Measuring the Central Tendency
Mean
Weighted arithmetic mean
Median: A holistic measure
Middle value if odd number of values, or average of the
middle two values otherwise
estimated by interpolation
Mode
Value that occurs most frequently in the data
Unimodal, bimodal, trimodal
Empirical formula:

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=
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+ =
) ( 3 median mean mode mean =
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Measuring the Dispersion of Data
Quartiles, outliers and boxplots
Quartiles: Q
1
(25
th
percentile), Q
3
(75
th
percentile)
Inter-quartile range: IQR = Q
3

Q
1
Five number summary: min, Q
1
, M,

Q
3
, max
Boxplot: ends of the box are the quartiles, median is marked,
whiskers, and plot outlier individually
Outlier: usually, a value higher/lower than 1.5 x IQR
Variance and standard deviation
Variance s
2
: (algebraic, scalable computation)

Standard deviation s is the square root of variance s
2

= = =

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n
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1
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1
1
) (
1
1
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Boxplot Analysis
Five-number summary of a distribution:
Minimum, Q1, M, Q3, Maximum
Boxplot
Data is represented with a box
The ends of the box are at the first and third
quartiles, i.e., the height of the box is IRQ
The median is marked by a line within the
box
Whiskers: two lines outside the box extend
to Minimum and Maximum
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A Boxplot
A boxplot
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Visualization of Data
Dispersion: Boxplot Analysis
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Mining Descriptive Statistical Measures in
Large Databases
Variance



Standard deviation: the square root of the variance
Measures spread about the mean
It is zero if and only if all the values are equal
Both the deviation and the variance are algebraic
( )
(

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2
2
1
2 2
1
1
1
) (
1
1
i i
n
i
i
x
n
x
n
x x
n
s
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Histogram Analysis
Graph displays of basic statistical class descriptions
Frequency histograms
A univariate graphical method
Consists of a set of rectangles that reflect the counts or
frequencies of the classes present in the given data
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Quantile Plot
Displays all of the data (allowing the user to assess
both the overall behavior and unusual occurrences)
Plots quantile information
For a data x
i
data sorted in increasing order, f
i

indicates that approximately 100 f
i
% of the data are
below or equal to the value x
i
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Quantile-Quantile (Q-Q) Plot
Graphs the quantiles of one univariate distribution
against the corresponding quantiles of another
Allows the user to view whether there is a shift in going
from one distribution to another
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Scatter plot
Provides a first look at bivariate data to see clusters of
points, outliers, etc
Each pair of values is treated as a pair of coordinates
and plotted as points in the plane
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Loess Curve
Adds a smooth curve to a scatter plot in order to
provide better perception of the pattern of dependence
Loess curve is fitted by setting two parameters: a
smoothing parameter, and the degree of the
polynomials that are fitted by the regression
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Graphic Displays of Basic Statistical
Descriptions
Histogram: (shown before)
Boxplot: (covered before)
Quantile plot: each value x
i
is paired with f
i
indicating
that approximately 100 f
i
% of data are s x
i

Quantile-quantile (q-q) plot: graphs the quantiles of one
univariant distribution against the corresponding
quantiles of another
Scatter plot: each pair of values is a pair of coordinates
and plotted as points in the plane
Loess (local regression) curve: add a smooth curve to a
scatter plot to provide better perception of the pattern
of dependence
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Chapter 5: Concept Description:
Characterization and Comparison
What is concept description?
Data generalization and summarization-based
characterization
Analytical characterization: Analysis of attribute relevance
Mining class comparisons: Discriminating between
different classes
Mining descriptive statistical measures in large databases
Discussion
Summary
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AO Induction vs. Learning-from-
example Paradigm
Difference in philosophies and basic assumptions
Positive and negative samples in learning-from-
example: positive used for generalization, negative -
for specialization
Positive samples only in data mining: hence
generalization-based, to drill-down backtrack the
generalization to a previous state
Difference in methods of generalizations
Machine learning generalizes on a tuple by tuple basis
Data mining generalizes on an attribute by attribute
basis
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Comparison of Entire vs. Factored
Version Space
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Incremental and Parallel Mining of
Concept Description
Incremental mining: revision based on newly added data
ADB
Generalize ADB to the same level of abstraction in the
generalized relation R to derive AR
Union R U AR, i.e., merge counts and other statistical
information to produce a new relation R
Similar philosophy can be applied to data sampling,
parallel and/or distributed mining, etc.
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Chapter 5: Concept Description:
Characterization and Comparison
What is concept description?
Data generalization and summarization-based
characterization
Analytical characterization: Analysis of attribute relevance
Mining class comparisons: Discriminating between
different classes
Mining descriptive statistical measures in large databases
Discussion
Summary
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Summary
Concept description: characterization and discrimination
OLAP-based vs. attribute-oriented induction
Efficient implementation of AOI
Analytical characterization and comparison
Mining descriptive statistical measures in large
databases
Discussion
Incremental and parallel mining of description
Descriptive mining of complex types of data
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